August 19, Progressive Pulse, NC POLICY WATCH: Today’s “must read”: How a progressive stance on one issue is saving NC residents more than $450 million per year This blog post summarizes CRL’s research showing that state’s without payday lending save $2.2 billion per year. Evidence from CRL and others shows that borrowers in these states find alternatives that are cheaper, …
28 Senators call for CFPB to strengthen payday lending rule
28 Senators, led by Senators Brown Coons, Durbin, and Merkley, signed onto a letter in support of a strong final CFPB small-dollar lending rule. The detailed letter is a powerful call to the CFPB to strengthen its final rule and ensure that we stop the debt trap. Read the full letter. “We believe that the CFPB’s efforts will help to …
Payday News, week of April 1, 2016
Partner blogs, posts & press releases: March 29, 2016 Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Letter to Rep. Wasserman Schultz on the “Consumer Protection and Choice Act” “H.R. 4018 would impose a two-year moratorium on any rulemaking by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) that would regulate “deferred presentment transactions” – better known as, but not limited to, so-called …